{"id":11894,"date":"2010-06-16T23:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:40:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-17T01:06:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T01:06:43","slug":"whitman-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/16\/whitman-family-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitman Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like mother like son. As Robert posted<\/a> yesterday, Meg Whitman physically assaulted one of her employees while in the board room at eBay.  After likely committing a felony, Whitman apparently had eBay pay the woman $200,000 in hush money and charges were never filed.\"\"<\/p>\n

It seems that assault is a “family value” in the Harsh-Whitman clan.  Gawker reports<\/a> that Meg's son, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V (yeah, that's really his name), was arrested in 2006 and charged with felony battery for pushing a woman at a bar. Meg posted a cashier's check for the $25,000 bail and took Griffith home to their mansion in Atherton. The charges were later dismissed, the circumstances of which will be thoughly investigated, I'm sure.  Gawker has all the charging documents <\/a>if you'd like to puruse them.<\/p>\n

This, of course, is not the only display of a superiority complex among Whitman's sons.  Her son Will is widely reported<\/a> to have used the “n-word” at a private club, yelling “what are all these n****** doing here” one night when the members of the Black Arts Company<\/span> were there celebrating a show they had performed.  Brother Griffith was suspended <\/a>from Princeton, and after a guy whose face Griff threw a beer said “You can't do that to people,” Griff reportedly<\/a> pointed to himself and said “Billionaire.”<\/p>\n

These probably aren't the “family values” for which Meg wants to be known.  But if she can't even teach her own sons to respect other people and take humility in their own fortunate happenstance, does Meg Whitman have what it takes to run this State? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like mother like son. As Robert posted<\/a> yesterday, Meg Whitman physically assaulted one of her employees while in the board room at eBay.  After likely committing a felony, Whitman apparently had eBay pay the woman $200,000 in hush money and charges were never filed.\"\"<\/p>\n

It seems that assault is a “family value” in the Harsh-Whitman clan.  Gawker reports<\/a> that Meg's son, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V (yeah, that's really his name), was arrested in 2006 and charged with felony battery for pushing a woman at a bar. Meg posted a cashier's check for the $25,000 bail and took Griffith home to their mansion in Atherton. The charges were later dismissed, the circumstances of which will be thoughly investigated, I'm sure.  Gawker has all the charging documents <\/a>if you'd like to puruse them.<\/p>\n

This, of course, is not the only display of a superiority complex among Whitman's sons.  Her son Will is widely reported<\/a> to have used the “n-word” at a private club, yelling “what are all these n****** doing here” one night when the members of the Black Arts Company<\/span> were there celebrating a show they had performed.  Brother Griffith was suspended <\/a>from Princeton, and after a guy whose face Griff threw a beer said “You can't do that to people,” Griff reportedly<\/a> pointed to himself and said “Billionaire.”<\/p>\n

These probably aren't the “family values” for which Meg wants to be known.  But if she can't even teach her own sons to respect other people and take humility in their own fortunate happenstance, does Meg Whitman have what it takes to run this State? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-35Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}